Innovate Haizhu to the future and create a new industrial ecology

On the morning of April 9, the Haizhu branch of the 2024 China Guangzhou International Investment Annual Conference hosted by the People's Government of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province and undertaken by the People's Government of Haizhu District was successfully held in the Canton Fair Hall. Representatives of more than 170 enterprises and business associations from home and abroad attended the meeting, focusing on the development of artificial intelligence, digital marketing and other industries to carry out in-depth discussions, and jointly look forward to the new prospects of industrial ecology in Haizhu District. At this event, Haizhu District also officially launched the Digital Marketing Industry Ecological Alliance, and for the first time cooperated with L'Oréal Group, a Fortune 500 company, to hold a roadshow in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area of Haizhu Partner ×L'Oréal Beauty Technology Creation Camp.

Investment promotion first + ecological cultivation to lay a new foundation for high-quality development

The vitality of modern industries and the vigorous development of the digital economy are important new impressions of Haizhu District in recent years. In 2023, Haizhu District will deliver a brilliant economic development answer, with the regional GDP exceeding 270 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.6%, ranking first in the city. The digital economy has reached a new level of development, representing the industry's new generation of information technology breaking through the 80 billion yuan mark, achieving a growth rate of 28.4%, the proportion of industry added value in GDP continues to increase, and the pillar position of the largest industry has been further consolidated.

The digital economy has gathered momentum in Haizhu District and has become the most important source of power for the high-quality development of the regional economy. This is inseparable from the leading role of leading enterprises such as Tencent and Douyin Group in the region, and the implementation of the concept of "industry first" investment promotion. Since 2015, focusing on the theme of Pazhou's digital economy and artificial intelligence industry, Haizhu District has introduced more than 30 leading enterprises such as Tencent, Alibaba, Sanqi Mutual Entertainment and other leading enterprises to build headquarters land projects, involving consumer Internet platforms, industrial Internet, artificial intelligence, intelligent manufacturing, Internet games, digital media, digital new retail and other fields, with a total investment scale of more than 100 billion yuan for key projects and an overall annual revenue scale of more than 100 billion yuan. Driven by these leading enterprises in the digital economy, there are more than 36,000 enterprises in the Pazhou Pilot Zone, with an annual revenue of more than 440 billion yuan, and it has been selected as one of the top 10 competitive enterprises in China's central business district by Forbes.

Based on the intensive landing of leading enterprises, Haizhu District has consciously excavated and given full play to the working mechanism of "chief service officer" and "Haizhu partner" to attract and agglomeration effects at the level of the upstream and downstream industrial chain ecological chain, and actively promote investment promotion through business and platform, relying on the five major platforms of Tencent, Douyin, Alibaba, Vipshop and Ant Group, forming a consumer Internet industry ecology covering the upstream and downstream industrial chains, surrounding ecological providers and service providers. A multi-format and full-chain consumer Internet ecology such as core platform, digital marketing, private domain operation, shopping guide, investment stream, MCN, and agency operation has gradually taken shape.

Industrial agglomeration + digital marketing, prospering the new ecology of the digital economy

In 2023, Haizhu District will have a deep understanding of market changes and the real needs of enterprises, iteratively upgrade the original "chief service officer" mechanism, and innovatively launch the "Haizhu Partner" mechanism, which will be upgraded from "serving enterprises" to "growing with enterprises", realizing the linkage of all resources and making the government the "most iron partner" of enterprises.

Since 2024, Haizhu District has continued to enrich the connotation and practice of "Haizhu Partner", continued to explore in terms of ecological construction, and actively expanded revenue, expanded business, and landed teams for enterprise chain resources, chain needs, and chain platforms, especially supporting local head enterprises to empower small and medium-sized enterprises in the district to reduce costs and increase efficiency, become bigger and stronger, and promote the formation of an industrial ecosystem with head enterprises as the core.

The linkage between government and enterprises is the theme of cooperation and development, and Haizhu has explored a new model of "government setting up the stage, enterprises singing, and empowering the ecology", and launched a series of activities of "Haizhu Partners× Ecological Partners" to support leading enterprises to give full play to their advantages to better grasp market opportunities and link resources of all parties, while empowering small, medium and micro enterprises from multiple dimensions such as brand, traffic, technology, and ecology. At this annual investment meeting, based on the concept of "Haizhu Partners × Ecological Partners", Haizhu cooperated with L'Oreal Group to hold a roadshow in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area of Haizhu Partners ×L'Oréal Beauty Technology Creation Camp, discussing in the fields of AI, production and research, supply chain, intelligent manufacturing, and new consumer experience, so as to help the new industrial ecology based on the consumer Internet prosper and develop locally.

"Haizhu has outstanding ecological advantages in digital marketing, and has landed leading projects such as Tencent's WeChat headquarters, and the IP effect and industrial agglomeration effect of Pazhou's digital economy are prominent, and the ecological foundation of 100 billion yuan has been laid", Mei Bo, Dean of the Bow Research Institute, pointed out in the theme sharing of digital marketing industry trends. At present, in the consumer Internet, a key area of digital economy, Haizhu District is focusing on the development of the digital marketing industry, implementing the ecological prosperity plan in a targeted manner, and promoting the construction of a "100 billion-level" industrial ecosystem. At the sub-venue of the International Investment Annual Conference, Haizhu District also announced the official launch of the Haizhu District Digital Marketing Industry Ecological Alliance together with representatives of six digital marketing industry enterprises and professional institutions, including Curved Bow Research Institute, Aoki Technology, Tanji Technology, and Xuanwu Technology, and will continue to play the role of the industrial ecological alliance in the future to help the digital marketing industry prosper and develop in Haizhu.

In addition to the digital marketing industry alliance, Haizhu District will also take the lead in creating a new highland of digital marketing in the city by planning and introducing an industry support method, creating a number of professional carriers, reserving a number of key projects, strengthening a number of local legal persons, and settling in an industry summit. By grasping the key of digital marketing, we will actively promote the strengthening of the ecological chain of the upstream and downstream industrial chains of the leading enterprises, and build a new ecology of the "tropical rainforest-style" consumer Internet industry led by the chain master, driven by the leader, and developed by agglomeration.

Seize the early plan + face the wind and seize new opportunities for artificial intelligence

In 2023, conversational AI models such as ChatGPT will swipe the screen and beyond, and at the beginning of 2024, Wensheng video models such as Sora will once again attract the world's attention. In the context of the development of artificial intelligence to refresh people's cognition again and again, Haizhu District took the lead in the field of large models to run out of "acceleration", released the province's first government cloud brain large model, and entered the first batch of large model industry applications. Up to now, 21 large-scale model application projects have been implemented in the region.

The "fast" development of Haizhu District in the field of artificial intelligence comes from the "early" and "stable" industrial planning and layout. As early as 2022, Haizhu District put forward the idea of building "Pazhou Computing Valley" based on the foundation of the development of the digital economy in the district and the comparative advantages of the important artificial intelligence industry platform in the Pazhou Pilot Zone, focusing on the three pillars of artificial intelligence development of "algorithms, computing power, and data", creating a highland for the algorithm industry and strengthening the core of Haizhu's artificial intelligence industry. In September 2023, the 2nd Guangzhou Pazhou Algorithm Competition came to a successful conclusion, attracting more than 3,300 teams from 21 countries and regions to participate, and 24 projects such as Baidu ARM Cloud were attracted to attract investment through the competition, and the scale of the competition reached a new high. After two years of careful polishing, the Pazhou Algorithm Competition has become a top competition in the field of algorithms with a wide range of participants, a strong lineup of judges, sufficient scientific and technological content, and practical results in similar competitions in China.

In March 2024, the implementation plan of Guangzhou Municipality to support Haizhu District to build a demonstration zone for the application of artificial intelligence large models was officially issued. With the support of Guangzhou City, Haizhu District will build a leading demonstration area for the application of artificial intelligence large models in China, and strive to promote the in-depth application of artificial intelligence large models in more than 8 industries by 2026, promote no less than 30 typical application scenarios, select 50 benchmarking enterprises, and reserve more than 5,000 algorithms, driving the main business income of the demonstration zone to exceed 500 billion yuan, becoming a leading application demonstration highland, policy highland and talent highland in the country, and seizing new opportunities for the development of the artificial intelligence industry.